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zip Developer Express Release Notes Viewer

Downloads: 114 File Size: 322.7kB
Posted By: Brian Brewder Views: 1,431
Date Added: 01-09-2008

NOTE: This tool is for developers who use one or more of the Developer Express products.

UPDATE: Developer Express has changed the way they publish updates so this tool is no longer effective for newer versions.

This tool parses the release notes from Developer Express and displays them in a grid. The grid enables you to filter out the issues that you don't care about (for example, if you are only interested in what changed in the XtraGrid after 7.1). 

The release notes must be downloaded from the DevEx website, named <version>.htm (eg, 7.3.5.htm), and placed in a directory that only contains DevEx release notes. The zip file contains all of the release notes from 6.1.0 to 7.3.5 (though 6.1.0 uses a different format than the rest so doesn't get parsed and displayed in the grid).

This tool was developed in just a couple of hours and shows it. This is why I have chosen to release only the source code, so that only developers will use this tool and can fix problems if they run into them.

 The tool uses DevEx version 7.3.4 of the XtraGrid, though I'm not doing anything really special with the grid, so you should be able to swap out the references for just about any version.

If you run into any problems, you are pretty much on your own to fix them. If you fix an issue and send me the source code (either submit a comment or use the Contact form), I will try to include it in some future version. 

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Simon Beverton said:

Brian, definitely a useful tool - thanks! However I found another file inside the zip which turned out to be a renamed zip file - was this intended? I did get the app to work nicely.
01-10-2008 12:14 AM
 

Brian Brewder said:

@Simon - which file was it? I downloaded it and peeped inside and I didn't see anything out of the ordinary (though I've been known to miss the obvious before).
01-10-2008 2:00 AM
 

Renaud Bompuis said:

Nice and useful, thanks for making it available :-) Just a couple of comments: - would be nicer on people who wan to see the result to provide a compiled version. - a nice extension would be to allow the issue ID to be clicked to open a web browser to the corresponding page to view the details ( http://www.devexpress.com/issue=xxx ) Thanks again.
01-10-2008 4:58 AM

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